COPPER SCULPTURE WITH ANIMATION
For my Light Art Practicum, I created an animated sculpture from Copper Rods, an IPS display and solid core wire. I was inspired by Makoto Tojiki’s work and wanted to reference that inspiration by creating a Wire sculpture with a digital wire frame figure.
HOW IT WAS MADE
All electrical components were purchased from Adafrtuit.com. This includes the Feather RP2040 board and IPS TFT Display. A 16 GB SD card was necessary to store about a hundred 240px by 280px BMP sprite images because the board itself only has 8 MB of storage. All programming was done using Circuit Python and I made use of the Adafruit Circuit Python libraries for graphics and SD card support.
REFLECTION
This project was new territory for me. I didn’t have any experience with electronics when I started, but I wanted to really challenge myself. Due to the limitations of these skills the final result wasn’t exactly what I was hoping to achieve but in general, the project forced me to develop a lot of patience and exposed me to a lot of information I otherwise wouldn’t have learned.
Although it doesn’t really work during the presentation, I am glad that it worked in the end! The build looks awesome, it looked like a little satellite!
I admire your courage in diving into SEVERAL new territories just for this one piece of work. Although the final outcome could be a bit different from what was planned out, it still looks pretty neat to me. I like how the boards and the metal frame are put together.
This came out great! A great dive into many different areas of art, electronics, technology, etc. that come together well. Serves well as a proof-of-concept for larger builds to come as well – can build off of what you learned from this! Integrating the circuit itself into the sculpture adds a minimal look that is a great fit for the wireframe model.